US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 23 for "System and method for connected vehicle-based advanced detection of slow-down events" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,089, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System and method for connected vehicle-based advanced detection of slow-down events" was invented by Yasir Khudhair Al-Nadawi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Laith Daman (Novi, Mich.) and Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting a traffic event include receiving vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles travelling along a roadway. The method also includes where the roadway is discretized at a cell level into a plurality of cells. The method also includes identifying vehicles of interest that are within a co...